9.10.12 Featured Artist: David Schoerner Studio Polaroids, 2012

A sheet of 4×5 instant film exposed each day I am in the studio for the duration of time I am there.

In January 2012, I began making instant film prints. One is made each day that I go to my studio to work. Upon entering my studio I point a 4×5 view camera directly at one of the walls, set the aperture to its maximum, and expose a sheet of 4×5 instant film for the duration of time I am there. I then develop the print just prior to leaving the studio. The resulting image is a field of color – a kind of document of color temperature and my time spent working in the studio. Subtle variations of light and dark, with hints of texture from the wall, create a depth to the photographic prints. They become a sentimental record of the artist’s time spent working alone in the studio. With this realization the subtleties of color and light take on new meaning and importance, and the viewer is left to contemplate the simultaneous intimacy and isolation of a camera working independently in the studio while I do the same.

7/1/12 (Studio, 20 Grand Ave.), 2012, Instant Film, 5 x 4in

3/7/12 (Studio, 20 Grand Ave.), 2012, Instant Film, 5 x 4in

Born in 1984, David Schoerner lives and works in New York. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently his work was included in an exhibition at Higher Pictures, organized by Artie Vierkant. Solo exhibitions of his work have been on view in Oslo, Norway at MELK Galleri, The Carol Schlosberg Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, Massachusetts, and a forthcoming solo exhibition (2013) at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. He is the founder of Hassla Books.

Artist website: davidschoerner.com